Daniele Bracciali Daniele Bracciali (; born 10 January 1978) is an Italian former tennis player, best ranked world no. 21 in doubles. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world no. 49, achieved in May 2006. In doubles, he reached the semifinals of the 2012 Fren ...

and

Jocelyn Robichaud Jocelyn Robichaud (born 8 April 1978 in Joliette, Quebec) is a former tour professional tennis player. Robichaud captured three junior Grand Slam titles and played Davis Cup for Canada. More of a doubles specialist, he won three Challenger e ...

were the defending champions, but both turned 18 years old during the season and, therefore, were unable to compete in Juniors.

Luis Horna Luis Horna Biscari (; born 14 September 1980 in Lima) is a former tour professional tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Known by his nickname "Lucho", he won 2 career singles titles, reached the quarterfinals of the 2004 ...

and

Nicolás Massú Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (; born 10 October 1979), nicknamed ''El Vampiro'' (Spanish, 'the vampire'), is a Chilean tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ...

defeated Jaco van der Westhuizen and

Wesley Whitehouse Wesley Whitehouse (born 13 March 1979) is a South African-born New Zealand tennis player. Biography Whitehouse lives or has lived in between Pretoria, South Africa and Phoenix, Arizona but currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand Career J ...

in the final, 6–4, 6–2 to win the boys' doubles tennis title at the 1997 Wimbledon Championships. It was the 2nd Grand Slam title for Horna and the 1st Grand Slam title for Massú in their respective junior doubles careers.

Seeds

(champions) # Jaco van der Westhuizen /

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Jérôme Haehnel Jérôme Haehnel (; born 14 July 1980) is a retired French tennis player who is best known for defeating Andre Agassi in the first round of the French Open in 2004. Haehnel's career-high singles ranking is World No. 78, which he reached in Febru ...

Julien Jeanpierre Julien Jeanpierre (; born 10 March 1980) is a former professional tennis player from France. Junior career Jeanpierre was a world number one ranked junior and had wins over Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and David Nalbandian during his junior ye ...

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David Sherwood David Sherwood is a British tennis coach and retired tennis player. In his only live Davis Cup match, Sherwood played doubles with Andy Murray beating the Israeli World No 4 doubles team of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram, Early and personal life ...

James Trotman James Trotman (born 16 February 1979) is a British tennis coach, former professional player, and a junior Grand Slam champion in boys' doubles at both the Wimbledon Championships and the Australian Open. He is known for his success in junior Gr ...

''(first round)''

Draw

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:1997 Wimbledon Championships - Boys' Doubles Boys' Doubles Wimbledon Championship by year – Boys' doubles